{"id":167161,"date":"2025-09-25T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167161\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:35:12","slug":"nrl-club-land-england-captain-in-major-coup-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167161\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL club land England captain in major coup &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> finals may not be over, but the transfer market is already heating up, with one club pulling off major roster shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0Daily Telegraph, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a> have landed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> skipper and international star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/george-williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/canberra-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canberra Raiders<\/a> playmaker quit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> four years ago, after an ugly fallout with head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/ricky-stuart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Stuart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103960\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Raiders confident of keeping homesick Williams\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1804\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1309366324-scaled.jpg.webp.webp\"\/>CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA &#8211; MARCH 27: George Williams of the Raiders in action during the round three NRL match between the Canberra Raiders and the Warriors at GIO Stadium on March 27, 2021, in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Mark Nolan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> due to homesickness, but has made the drastic call of making his way back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He will link up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a> on a two-year deal, in a move that boosts the club&#8217;s leadership stocks as they look to make a finals push.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a> fans will need to wait until 2027 for their new recruit to arrive in Redcliffe, though, as he is currently contracted until the end of 2026 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/british-teams\/warrington-wolves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warrington Wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He will be 32 years old when he arrives at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a>, and is likely to partner rising superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/isaiya-katoa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiya Katoa<\/a> in the halves.<\/p>\n<p>The club was eager to get him over sooner but were unable to secure a release from the Wolves, resulting in the 2027 deal eventuating.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The NRL finals may not be over, but the transfer market is already heating up, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}